 Hey everybody out there. It is the end of the month once again, and you know what that means time to welcome you to another Edition of JSA's fast-forward. Thank you for joining us as we broadcast live Online via LinkedIn and YouTube. I'm Jamie Scott of Kataya JSA's founder and CEO Hi, Jay. It's so good to see you. Happy end of the month. Happy end of the month and for you joining I am Dean Perine executive vice president at JSA and we're here to bring you the latest and greatest from the world of tech Telecom and data centers from the pages of our very own telecom news now blog And there was lots of great stuff in our TNN this month wasn't there Dina? We have lots of you know good stuff What's your favorite article? No, my favorite my favorite and it's for two reasons actually number one Michelle Michelle is the head of product management for aware X I'm gonna talk to you about aware X in just a second and she had a really really great editorial on CSPs and how they can do their their job by catering to the needs of small business clients And they she makes a lot of really really good points the best part about this is that the aware X team has basically has a customer experience communications Automation platform basically they've taken all of that stuff that kind of automates the communication between a business and an end user And and automates it with with hundreds of different personas and and pathways So it just kind of makes things much easier rather than having to pick up a call or pick up the phone and do things like that So anyway, and how that is kind of like transforming how businesses are communicating with their end users Aware X very cool company. Yeah, awesome. And you Jay. Yeah, any any fun stuff catch your eye this month? Well, I'm glad you mentioned aware X. That was a great one Another piece I was looking at was an e-book posted by the folks at 1623 Farnham, you know, how much we love them and They they're talking all about peering in an internet exchange It was all from a financial and ROI perspective though and there's a lot of great insights in there So I definitely recommend that one very cool as for breaking news It seems like the big items this month were around expansions and partnerships So we are gonna focus on that today. You are right today We're going to give you top three headlines from both service expansions and industry partnerships Continuing with our new tradition. We're gonna do a little spice it up and turn this broadcast into a bit of a trivia game today So hopefully all you gamers are gonna sit back and enjoy with us and spicy. This one is Jamie Get started a couple of trivia questions to stump you my captain one about the topic of expansion and one on the topic of partnerships and full disclosure, I do not know what he's going to ask so this will be Yeah, and I've got two for you Dino, so let the games begin where do we start? Let's start with the partner category first. This one is all about famous duos Then we'll roll into some news about the important new industry duos and things like that Duos not duels duos. I'm At the end of this who knows got it. Okay. Hit me. Okay. Here we go. All right Here's your trivia question about famous duos while you know butch Cassidy as a famous outlaw Do you remember the name of his famous? counterpart All right, so let's see butch Cassidy and this is a movie What I don't know much about the Old West. I do know Robert Redford So I'm going to say butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Judges will accept this answer and in fact would have awarded bonus points for knowing the Sundance Kid's real name which is Harry long a ball. Yeah. Yeah, definitely would not have gotten that so I'm glad Sundance Kid gets gets credit So yeah, wow I wouldn't know that one either but the good thing is that fast forward is an educational program So we get to learn right along with the viewers and we do it all here at JSA guys It's educational program ready for your famous duos question Dino Yeah, sure Okay, you might have court Orville Wright flying in the sky with his brother who is named Man, how come I don't know this I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with Harry long You get points from the from before I guess it's the legendary train robber and father of aviation interesting how the two can connect He would be needing to pull off some serious double-duty there Yeah, he's the most interesting man in the world James and the correct answer is Wilbur Orville and Wilbur right Wilbur right really rolls off the tongue doesn't it you know what well? I was saying that to myself in my head. I sounded like Barbara Walters. You know how she would give that will Anyway all-time great name for sure Also, we have to thank him for the first leg room Reclining scenarios in history And tiny bags of pretzels hats off to you Wilbur And the reason we're talking about famous duos is because there were some big-time partnership announcements this month on the TNN blog We had this on the end we had it all but we're gonna get to those The three that got the biggest attention right now. That's right. Okay. Let's start with C Bc tech and Zen layer. We all love Zen layer in edge cloud service provider Announcing the new arrangement with CBC tech a leading provider of network as a service The partnership aims to combine both companies networking capabilities to markets around the world Standing very cool there another new partnership announcement came from Airtel one of India's leading telecommunications service providers They partnered with Bridgeport technology a tech advisory firm the two companies working together will allow US Enterprises who are interested in expanding into India and Africa to easily Access and leverage Airtel's many digital infrastructure solutions It's a very cool thing what Airtel is doing here in the States is basically they are they are serving as kind of a shepherd for Carriers and enterprises from the US to India and Africa making it easy more affordable more Good word shepherd. I love that. Yes. Yes, definitely worthwhile Okay, and our last bit of partnership news is from our Ohio based network expert and fiber optic partner horizon They recently began a project with an organization called OME RSA or OME RSA. I'm not sure Which is a regional education service agency. It's an exciting plan that will deliver high speed high capacity Internet access to nearly 30,000 students in 10 counties across Ohio. So we're educating Ohio one student at a time guys Yeah, this story got a lot of play too very very good. Yeah, and for good reason I'm all for of course educational IT opportunities Encourage everyone to check out this great work horizon is doing to invest in our children. I Believe the children are our future Jay, you know it So and that wraps up our section on partnerships you ready to get into our next and final Impressed we didn't whip out Whitney. So, yeah, let's go Wilbur to Whitney there we are Okay, all right, so let's start talking Expansions yes our next and final category guys Expansions it's a pretty vague trivia category. So yeah, I'm a little worried you should be Jay because the expansion-based question is a biology Okay, when you inhale which dome-shaped muscle Contracts and moves downward allowing your lungs to expand Oh, I love it This is my yoga guys. So I actually know this one. I think my teacher is always Chuck checking up on our breathing in class. And so We use our diaphragm diaphragm final answer diaphragm is it fans correct? Good job, Jay I guess that yoga time has actually paid off finally You don't have any flexibility, but though you can breathe with the best I was just thinking of the thousands of dollars I've spent on leggings, but yeah, okay All right, so here comes your expansion related trivia question Dino what man-made fabric Derived its name by rearranging the letters in the word Expands Okay, so I have to rearrange the letters in the word expands. That's right You said it's a fabric a man-made fabric of some type. Uh-huh. I'm giving I'm buying you time my friend. I'm trying here Okay, I've got it for sure this time Yes, it's deans deans and Px deans Px. Yes. No deans pecs deans pecs. Ah Okay, Lord help us. No, no I Thought our viewers would be you know kind of noticing my work chiseled to see You know, I've been hitting the weights Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one. Mm-hmm. All right. The correct answer is Spandex You're almost there. Yeah, deans pecs come on I like mine better though, javy, you know, I've been weightlifting virtually with uh My colleague carl who's been impressed uh that I managed to work in some bodybuilding content So shout out to you carl. That's a beat pecs. That was all for you, sir And where can you guys go to get any better headlines that are just plain weird There you go All right, we're going to ignore mr. Dino for a minute just to talk about the biggest three pieces of expansion news this month That's right guys. We are back at it with the actual headlines for our industry Let's start with edge connects who recently announced an expansion of their cloud offering They announced this month that they expanded cloud access to three key cities using mega port So that's atlanta, detroit and miami Yep, congratulations to edge connects and just for everyone's um Say I am I'm back. I'm feeling much better. No more no more flexing. Welcome back to you And our next big expansion headline Involved miami as well connectivity provider light path. We all know and love them Continues its planned expansion expansion in miami with the build out of its new all fiber network throughout the region They plan to have 65 root miles of network connecting four data centers by the end of 2023 So the expansion keeps on rolling on over there at uh like that 65 root miles or 65 route miles depends on where in the country you live Root route you take your pick whatever you like tomato tomorrow. All right Our last piece of expansion news is about connect base They expanded globally last month by acquiring last mile exchange known as l m x Headquartered in london now connect base can extend their reach Into a maya and apac regions which is huge news huge news for them huge news for our industry really It really is and it was kind of only a matter of time with some of the funding grounds that they've had and some of the uh The platform expansions that they've made it was only a matter of time before they went completely global with uh with their service there So excellent job, um and that finished up our trivia game along with the three top headlines from new industry expansions and Partnerships so we should ramp up by covering the top three Industry conferences for our viewers. What do you say jay? Absolutely. I love the power of three. So we're working this here All right channel partners europe taking place in london on june 13th and 14th as part of london tech week It's the uk's premier channel partners event if you do business in this area It is the place to be find out what's next for the channel. So go ahead and check that out Absolutely and check out uh and later this month is platform africa in Mara catch maraco on june 22nd The event is all about investing in african data center markets and ensuring sustainable power for africa's future connectivity They'll have speakers exhibits and receptions and it sounds amazing. I would love to go to maraco Oh, my goodness. Absolutely. And africa is exploding now. Thankfully and uh a lot of good sustainability efforts come in there too Because they don't have a lot of legacy To contend with so a lot of great news coming out of africa for sure. All right, finally We've got dcd connect silicon valley june 26th and 27th guys This takes place in santa clara california hosting over 750 professionals and over 100 expert speakers One of the most anticipated events on the west coast data center calendar and also one of the longest running shows I didn't realize that so don't miss it guys Outstanding. Okay, great stuff. Jay. We did it. That's uh, that's about all we have for fast forward this month We'll see you next month for more headlines news and insights from the world of telecom and data centers talking Nice until next time Adios and happy networking